Talk:mediaeval

Usage statistics:

At controlled corpora:

COCA (US)

• medieval: 4,961; mediaeval: 51 (97:1)

BNC (UK)

• medieval: 2,473; mediaeval: 190 (13:1)

At Google sources (results may not be reproducible):

News (current) All:

• medieval: 6,191; mediaeval: 107 (58:1)

US only:

• medieval: 1,979; mediaeval: 10 (198:1)

News (archive)

• medieval: 209,000; mediaeval: 28,700 (7.3:1)

Books All

• medieval: 65,500; mediaeval: 24,975 (2.6:1)

Published since 1980 (including reprints)

• medieval: 45,500; mediaeval: 6,491 (7:1)

Scholar:

• medieval: 912,000; mediaeval: 136,000 (6.7:1)

Thus, it seems possible that at one time "mediaeval" was the dominant spelling, but no longer in any of the contexts shown. DCDuring TALK 14:10, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

mediareview

Any sign of mediareview, like medireview? Not that I consider medireview a word, mind you. All computer-generated mistakes in all languages, anyone? Renard Migrant (talk) 23:09, 7 January 2016 (UTC)